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SUMMARY:Intracortical brain-computer interfaces: from fundamental science 
 and engineering to restoring speech and reach & grasp
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DESCRIPTION:Dr Sergey Stavisky\nPlease note that the schedule of the event
  still has to be confirmed\n\n\nAbstract: Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs)
  are poised to profoundly transform human health by treating devastating 
 – and currently incurable – nervous system injuries and diseases with 
 precise\, circuit-level measurements and interventions. BCIs can potential
 ly restore the ability to speak\, move\, remember and more. However\, repa
 iring or replacing patients’ damaged abilities requires a platform for u
 nderstanding human-specific neural functions and designing\, testing\, and
  refining therapies in people. My strategy for accomplishing this is to de
 velop advanced intracortical BCIs to restore speech and reach & grasp move
 ments for people with paralysis. These clinical trials will help individua
 ls with severe speech and motor impairment in the near-term\, and in doing
  so\, validate the safety of new human-use devices capable of reading from
  and writing to thousands of neurons. \nThis research also provides a uni
 que opportunity to study the workings of the human brain at the unpreceden
 ted resolution of hundreds of individual neurons\, across multiple brain a
 reas\, and over many months. My hope is that understanding the function (a
 nd dysfunction) of these neural computations will lead to better BCI thera
 pies to restore patients’ lost abilities.\n\nSpeaker Bio: Dr. Sergey S
 tavisky received his Sc.B. from Brown University in 2008\, after which he
  worked as a research engineer in the BrainGate group for two years. Serge
 y completed his PhD in neurosciences at Stanford University in 2016\, wher
 e he studied motor cortical control of reaching and developed brain-comput
 er interfaces in a preclinical monkey model in the group of Electrical Eng
 ineering Prof. Krishna Shenoy.\n    Sergey is currently a postdoctoral f
 ellow in the Stanford Neural Prosthetics Translational Laboratory\, mentor
 ed by Profs. Jaimie Henderson (Neurosurgery) and Krishna Shenoy. He's been
  focused on both the engineering and scientific challenges necessary to de
 velop BCIs to restore the ability of clinical trial participants with move
 ment impairments to speak and make reach and grasp movements. Sergey has p
 ublished 24 peer-reviewed journal papers\, has been awarded 2 patents\, an
 d was recognized with postdoctoral fellowship awards from the ALS Associat
 ion\, the A. P. Giannini Foundation\, the Stanford Wu Tsai Neurosciences I
 nstitute\, and most recently a faculty transition award from the Burroughs
  Wellcome Fund.
LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/82709146091?pwd=ck1PUmZPZ04zTUVuMTJub0RzK0
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